Three More Fox Points (Before the War Ends)

Three More Fox Points (Before the War Ends)

Three More Fox Points (Before the War Ends)

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Oct. 26 2009 3:42 AM

Three More Fox Points (Before the War Ends)

Three quick points about the Fox War before it ends:

1) I argued that I have no faith that Roger Ailes didn't take direction from the Bush White House . The most sophisticated response I've gotten is, in effect, 'Sure he did. But you don't think Rick Kaplan at CNN took direction from the Clinton White House?' I don't know about Kaplan. But Kaplan only ran CNN for three years or so--just passing through. Roger Ailes pretty much is Fox News. The network has never existed without him.

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2) Still, David Axelrod's central argument , that because Fox is not really a 'news organization' other media should "not follow their lead" doesn't make sense. You don't have to be an independent "news organization" to break a story. The Democratic National Committee could break a story--that is, disclose the information that demonstrated something newsworthy had happened (say, that a presidential aide signed a Truther petition). The March of Dimes could break a story.The Scientologists could break a story.  Joe's Garage could break a story. And Fox can break a story. The traditional, independent "news media" will follow the leads they think are real stories. They don't follow only the ones that come from "news organizations." How was Axelrod going to stop that?

3) If it was all about fundraising , and Obama is winding down the war, does that mean it wasn't working as a fundraising theme? Or that it worked so successfully the Dems don't need any more money? Or just that fundraising season is mostly over for 2009? 

Update:  Jonah Goldberg, more in sorrow than in anger ! ... Time to call in reinforcement, from Reader G, a conservative:

I saw it with my own eyes!  Brit Hume's Special Report did indeed try mightily to carry the WH's water on Miers and especially, comprehenisive immigration reform.  No question about it.

P.S.: Still awaiting Stephen Spruiell's extensive "dossier"  of Fox's "dissents from the Bush White House." ...   1:28 A.M.

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